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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2009
Shuzo Oda, Kariya, JP;
Shinichi Yatsuzuka, Nagoya, JP;
Yasunori Niiyama, Kuwana, JP;
Takashi Kaneko, Nagoya, JP;
Shunji Okemoto, Tokai, JP;
Shuzo Oda, Kariya, JP;
Shinichi Yatsuzuka, Nagoya, JP;
Yasunori Niiyama, Kuwana, JP;
Takashi Kaneko, Nagoya, JP;
Shunji Okemoto, Tokai, JP;
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
An external combustion engine alternately repeating a first stroke of making a working fluid evaporate at a plurality of heating portions and making a liquid phase part of the working fluid displace toward an output part side and a second stroke of making the working fluid evaporated at the first stroke condense at the plurality of cooling portions and making the liquid phase part of the working fluid displace toward the side of the plurality of the heating portions and provided with inflow adjusting means for reducing differences in inflows among the plurality of the heating portions, wherein the inflow is defined as the amount of a liquid phase part of the working fluid flowing into the heating portions when the liquid phase part of the working fluid displaces from the output part side to the side of the plurality of the heating portions in the second stroke.